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Vaughn Swearingen

Borderlands: Time To Let The Wicked Rest

Borderlands: Time To Let The Wicked Rest

Borderlands is barely a movie. It’s borderline unwatchable. It does make a convincing argument that video game movies should stop existing altogether. We’ve made admirable efforts for 30 years, but Eli Roth has made something that’s such an incoherent waste of money that it should simply be

Throw Down: Fist of the North Star (1986)

Throw Down: Fist of the North Star (1986)

Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland in search of our buffer selves? In a bleak, post-apocalyptic shell of a world, cities crumbling and the wastes ruled by violent warlords, everything is left to sheer strength. Muscle is all that matters, and to ascend to godhood your only

Deadpool & Wolverine: Self-Aware Slop

Deadpool & Wolverine: Self-Aware Slop

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been completely aimless for going on five years now – longer than it once took to get from 2008’s Iron Man to the first Avengers film in 2012. We’re now in Phase Five - unclear how or why that’s in any way distinct

Throw Down: SPL Kill Zone (2005)

Throw Down: SPL Kill Zone (2005)

Starting out by directing low budget horror and Category III exploitation films, Wilson Yip made a name for himself in '90s Hong Kong with breakout hits like Bio-Zombie, a Dawn of the Dead influenced zombie film taking place in a claustrophobic Hong Kong mall, and Bullets Over Summer, a

Longlegs: Something Underneath

Longlegs: Something Underneath

It burrows beneath your skin. A permeating, embedded unease that scrapes and scratches as it worms its way deeper within. Something is wrong, a natural order disrupted, the fabric of the air cut with an inky black presence that exists in an impossible periphery; always there but never perceived. The

Throw Down: Parole Violators (1994)

Throw Down: Parole Violators (1994)

This week on Throw Down, Jack and Vaughn open Pandora's box - the world of 90s SOV B-movie action, this time featuring Patrick G. Donahue's maniacal Parole Violators. The host of a vigilante public access television series is desperate to keep his program on air, putting

AGGRO DR1FT: Mesmerizing and Unwatchable

AGGRO DR1FT: Mesmerizing and Unwatchable

“I am the world’s greatest assassin” said in a sincere, hushed whisper by a man torn between his cartoonishly adoring family and his violent, seedy underworld business really only makes sense as an earnest line of dialogue when it’s been written by a person who also named his